diff --git a/knot.changes b/knot.changes
index 5f9aeee..ada4469 100644
--- a/knot.changes
+++ b/knot.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri May 14 21:24:51 UTC 2021 - Michal Hrusecky <michal.hrusecky@opensuse.org>
+
+- make sure we have getent and groupadd/useradd in pre
+  * added dependency on shadow and glibc
+  * might be related to bnc#1186023
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 12 12:43:44 UTC 2021 - Michal Hrusecky <michal.hrusecky@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/knot.spec b/knot.spec
index 2fe5c62..3840637 100644
--- a/knot.spec
+++ b/knot.spec
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libmaxminddb)
 BuildRequires:  libcap-ng-devel
 BuildRequires:  xz
 Requires(pre):  pwdutils
+Requires(pre):  shadow
+Requires(pre):  glibc
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 BuildRequires:  lmdb-devel >= 0.9.15
 %if %{with docs}